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From: | zhanghailiang |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [Migration Bug? ] Occasionally, the content of VM's memory is inconsistent between Source and Destination of migration |
Date: | Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:54:40 +0800 |
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On 2015/3/27 18:18, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
* zhanghailiang (address@hidden) wrote:On 2015/3/26 11:52, Li Zhijian wrote:On 03/26/2015 11:12 AM, Wen Congyang wrote:On 03/25/2015 05:50 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:zhanghailiang<address@hidden> wrote:Hi all, We found that, sometimes, the content of VM's memory is inconsistent between Source side and Destination side when we check it just after finishing migration but before VM continue to Run. We use a patch like bellow to find this issue, you can find it from affix, and Steps to reprduce: (1) Compile QEMU: ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --extra-ldflags="-lssl" && make (2) Command and output: SRC: # x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu qemu64,-kvmclock -netdev tap,id=hn0-device virtio-net-pci,id=net-pci0,netdev=hn0 -boot c -drive file=/mnt/sdb/pure_IMG/sles/sles11_sp3.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=unsafe -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -vnc :7 -m 2048 -smp 2 -device piix3-usb-uhci -device usb-tablet -monitor stdioCould you try to reproduce: - without vhost - without virtio-net - cache=unsafe is going to give you trouble, but trouble should only happen after migration of pages have finished.If I use ide disk, it doesn't happen. Even if I use virtio-net with vhost=on, it still doesn't happen. I guess it is because I migrate the guest when it is booting. The virtio net device is not used in this case.Er?????? it reproduces in my ide disk there is no any virtio device, my command line like below x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu qemu64,-kvmclock -net none -boot c -drive file=/home/lizj/ubuntu.raw -vnc :7 -m 2048 -smp 2 -machine usb=off -no-user-config -nodefaults -monitor stdio -vga std it seems easily to reproduce this issue by following steps in _ubuntu_ guest 1. in source side, choose memtest in grub 2. do live migration 3. exit memtest(type Esc in when memory testing) 4. wait migration completeYes???it is a thorny problem. It is indeed easy to reproduce, just as your steps in the above. This is my test result: (I also test accel=tcg, it can be reproduced also.) Source side: # x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-i440fx-2.3,accel=kvm,usb=off -no-user-config -nodefaults -cpu qemu64,-kvmclock -boot c -drive file=/mnt/sdb/pure_IMG/ubuntu/ubuntu_14.04_server_64_2U_raw -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,vgamem_mb=8 -vnc :7 -m 2048 -smp 2 -monitor stdio (qemu) ACPI_BUILD: init ACPI tables ACPI_BUILD: init ACPI tables migrate tcp:9.61.1.8:3004 ACPI_BUILD: init ACPI tables before cpu_synchronize_all_states 5a8f72d66732cac80d6a0d5713654c0e md_host : before saving ram complete 5a8f72d66732cac80d6a0d5713654c0e md_host : after saving ram complete 5a8f72d66732cac80d6a0d5713654c0e (qemu) Destination side: # x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-i440fx-2.3,accel=kvm,usb=off -no-user-config -nodefaults -cpu qemu64,-kvmclock -boot c -drive file=/mnt/sdb/pure_IMG/ubuntu/ubuntu_14.04_server_64_2U_raw -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,vgamem_mb=8 -vnc :7 -m 2048 -smp 2 -monitor stdio -incoming tcp:0:3004 (qemu) QEMU_VM_SECTION_END, after loading ram d7cb0d8a4bdd1557fb0e78baee50c986 md_host : after loading all vmstate d7cb0d8a4bdd1557fb0e78baee50c986 md_host : after cpu_synchronize_all_post_init d7cb0d8a4bdd1557fb0e78baee50c986Hmm, that's not good. I suggest you md5 each of the RAMBlock's individually; to see if it's main RAM that's different or something more subtle like video RAM.
Er, all my previous tests are md5 'pc.ram' block only.
But then maybe it's easier just to dump the whole of RAM to file and byte compare it (hexdump the two dumps and diff ?)
Hmm, we also used memcmp function to compare every page, but the addresses seem to be random. Besides, in our previous test, we found it seems to be more easy to reproduce when migration occurs during VM's start-up or reboot process. Is there any possible that some devices have special treatment when VM start-up which may miss setting dirty-bitmap ? Thanks, zhanghailiang
What kind of load were you having when reproducing this issue? Just to confirm, you have been able to reproduce this without COLO patches, right?(qemu) migrate tcp:192.168.3.8:3004 before saving ram complete ff703f6889ab8701e4e040872d079a28 md_host : after saving ram complete ff703f6889ab8701e4e040872d079a28 DST: # x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu qemu64,-kvmclock -netdev tap,id=hn0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,id=net-pci0,netdev=hn0 -boot c -drive file=/mnt/sdb/pure_IMG/sles/sles11_sp3.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=unsafe -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -vnc :7 -m 2048 -smp 2 -device piix3-usb-uhci -device usb-tablet -monitor stdio -incoming tcp:0:3004 (qemu) QEMU_VM_SECTION_END, after loading ram 230e1e68ece9cd4e769630e1bcb5ddfb md_host : after loading all vmstate 230e1e68ece9cd4e769630e1bcb5ddfb md_host : after cpu_synchronize_all_post_init 230e1e68ece9cd4e769630e1bcb5ddfb This happens occasionally, and it is more easy to reproduce when issue migration command during VM's startup time.OK, a couple of things. Memory don't have to be exactly identical. Virtio devices in particular do funny things on "post-load". There aren't warantees for that as far as I know, we should end with an equivalent device state in memory.We have done further test and found that some pages has been dirtied but its corresponding migration_bitmap is not set. We can't figure out which modules of QEMU has missed setting bitmap when dirty page of VM, it is very difficult for us to trace all the actions of dirtying VM's pages.This seems to point to a bug in one of the devices.Actually, the first time we found this problem was in the COLO FT development, and it triggered some strange issues in VM which all pointed to the issue of inconsistent of VM's memory. (We have try to save all memory of VM to slave side every time when do checkpoint in COLO FT, and everything will be OK.) Is it OK for some pages that not transferred to destination when do migration ? Or is it a bug?Pages transferred should be the same, after device state transmission is when things could change.This issue has blocked our COLO development... :( Any help will be greatly appreciated!Later, Juan..-- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK .
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